Robot challenge builds teamwork
February 12, 2020
St. Mary Catholic School celebrated the 46th annual National Catholic Schools Week from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. This year’s theme was “Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.” “Catholic Schools Week kicks […]
The eighth-grade music curriculum for Woodstock School District 200 now includes a world drumming unit. Carrie Filetti teaches general music at both Creekside and Northwood Middle Schools. She received funds […]
District 200 Woodstock School District 200 will begin accepting applications for its 2020-21 tuition preschool program on Friday, Jan. 24. In addition to the long-standing grant-funded preschool program open to […]
Northern Illinois university The largest U.S. treatment setting for people with serious mental illness isn’t the country’s network of hospitals, as you might expect. Rather, it’s the prison and jail […]
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